Recital 2

(2)On the basis of the ratio of the financial framework included in Regulation (EC) No 975/1999 and the indicative human rights and democratisation appropriations until 2006, this Regulation lays down, for the extended duration of the programme, a financial framework constituting the prime reference, within the meaning of point 33 of the Interinstitutional Agreement of 6 May 1999 between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline and improvement of the budgetary procedure ³ , for the budgetary authority during the annual budgetary procedure.